Active Directory Pentesting With Kali Linux - Red Team (Udemy.com)
Attacking and Hacking Active Directory With Kali Linux Full Course - Red Team Hacking Pentesting
Created by: Security Gurus
Last updated April 2026
What you will learn
- How to Use Metasploit to Exploit Active Directory
- How to Use Empire to Exploit Active Directory
- How to Use Evil-WinRM to Exploit Active Directory
- How to Use CrackMapExec to Exploit Active Directory
- How to Exploit Active Directory From Windows
- How to Do Active Directory Enumeration
- How to do Lateral Movement
- Active Directory Post Exploitation
- Active Directory Domain Privilege Escalation
- Active Directory Persistence Attacks
- How to use Kali Linux to hack Active Directory
- How to use nmap to Enumerate Servers
- How to exploit EternalBlue
How it compares
Against the other 112 rated Udemy courses in Windows Server on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 7% of them
- Reviews579#65 of 113 by number of reviews
- Length17.4 hourslonger than 90% of them
- Last updatedApril 2026more recently than 83% of them
Course Description
Most enterprise networks today are managed using Windows Active Directory and it is imperative for a security professional to understand the threats to the Windows infrastructure.
Active Directory Pretesting is designed to provide security professionals to understand, analyze and practice threats and attacks in a modern Active Directory environment. The course is beginner friendly and comes with a walkthrough videos course and all documents with all the commands executed in the videos. The course is based on our years of experience of breaking Windows and AD environments and research.
When it comes to AD security, there is a large gap of knowledge which security professionals and administrators struggle to fill. Over the years, I have taken numerous world trainings on AD security and always found that there is a lack of quality material and specially, a lack of good walkthrough and explanation.
The course simulate real world attack and defense scenarios and we start with a non-admin user account in the domain and we work our way up to enterprise admin. The focus is on exploiting the variety of overlooked domain features and not just software vulnerabilities.
We cover topics like AD enumeration, tools to use, domain privilege escalation, domain persistence, Kerberos based attacks (Golden ticket, Silver ticket and more), ACL issues, SQL server trusts, and bypasses of defenses.
Attacking and Hacking Active Directory With Kali Linux Full Course - Read Team Hacking Pentesting
Instructor Details
- 4.1 Rating
579 Reviews
Security Gurus
I started my journey with the CCNA R&S. After earling about VPNs, I became interested in security and pass the CCNA Security. I started digging more in firewalls and fell in love with Palo Alto Networks Firewall. I like to encrypt packets. BTC. CCNA Routing and CCNP SEC, CCNA SEC tips, labs videos and more! CCNA R&S and CCNA Security Certified and working on my CCNP Security SIMOS
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Reviews
By Erdem Gürbüz on 9/17/2026
Has a nice knowledge but too many trial & error. He could have try the commands first and record the video later.
By Atharva Dendge on 2/11/2026
It was a good AD Course For Beginners. But the sound quality was very poor, Everytime I had to wear earbuds in order to listen Course Contents. I was not able to download the course Resources too.
By Guy Ben-Yishai on 11/19/2024
The course creator did a good job of showcasing attacks, but the overall set of videos could have been edited a bit to skip past the occasional mess ups. That aside, my biggest gripe with this course is that no videos exist showcasing how to setup the lab the creator utilizes throughout the entirety of the course. Learning by doing is king, and without being given a reasonable opportunity to practice the learnings taught in this course through your own lab, you're essentially doing yourself a disservice. Whether or not that's up to the course creator or entirely yourself is up for debate though.
By Roger Wain on 7/2/2024
Course covers a significant number of and the use of various tools available to adversaries, and expected outputs of those tools. I would have liked more detailed reasons why a tool was used, but assume this was left to the student as 'homework'. All up a good course for beginning Pentesters.
By P.Juhanak on 12/14/2023
I like this course, I have already did the RED TEAM training on windows from this author, so I know what to expect.
By Malleswara Rao Vadlamudi on 11/28/2023
new kind of nmap scan has been discussed with interesting note making tips.
By Anonymized User on 6/21/2023
The instructor could have definitely been a bit more prepared but he is offering invaluable information for beginners in red teaming and the mic quality is good enough to understand what he is saying. It helps to put the video speed at a much higher rate, in order to get past all of the stumbling. Great course, overall!
By Joseph White on 4/26/2023
This has to be the BEST Active Directory training I've ever come across. This is straight forward training and with excellent details on exactly what to do. Be it seasoned hacker or beginner - take this course and you will be proficient in Active Directory Attacks. Greatly appreciate the author taking the time to put each video together and showed exactly what happens when attacking AD. Even with error correcting scenarios playing out in real time and finding the solution. Perfect course !!!
By Lucas Piasentin on 9/7/2022
Amazing course, I really liked the contents. I did learn a lot. Thank you very much for your time to create and teach us with this perfect course!
By Darren Reaume on 6/27/2022
17.5 hours of videos could be half this length. A lot of time wasted with videos twice as long as they need to be because none of the user mistakes were edited out of the videos. Kali Linux was not used once in the entire series - the course has an incorrect name - it should be "AD pentesting with Parrot OS".
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Overall Score : 82 / 100








